Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Lavante, Inc. (Acquired By Prgx Inc. In 2016)
San Jose, Ca, Us
♦ Digitally transformed the labor-intensive Profit Recovery industry by introducing a disruptive SaaS-based fintech solution, integrating advanced OCR, Natural Language Processing, and machine learning techniques. ♦ Established and developed a supportive Board of Directors, raising $25M+ in venture capital. ♦ Directed all operations with a $10M P&L responsibility, recruited, hired, and mentored a top executive team in just 12 months in a highly competitive market and successfully scaled the business to 120 employees in less than 2 years. ♦ Empowered clients to recover $600M+ in potential lost profits and enabled an 80%+ reduction in internal operational costs, resulting in 78% gross margins by digitally transforming and ultimately patenting a previously manual process. ♦ Built and nurtured strategic integrated product partnerships with 4 leading firms, including Taulia, HIS Markit (CTI), Basware, and Experian leading up to acquisition by PRGX.♦ Decreased the sales cycle from 100 days to 75 via leveraged-growth strategies, including product, partner, sales, marketing, and branding, attracting 80+ Fortune 1000 Customers in just 24 months. ♦ Attracted 2.5M companies by developing a multi-national, cross-industry, two-sided Supplier Network.♦ Reduced new feature time-to-market 60% and drove a consistent, high quality, monthly feature release process by rationalizing onshore and offshore engineering and dev-ops resources. ♦ Attained 97% annual client retention by originating a 12-member early adopter, customer advisory council to collect market feedback on product direction and feature sets to safeguard customer success.